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Originally Posted by Acajack
If I ever I go back to university in retirement, one thing I would like to study more closely is why around the turn of the 20th century both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had about 50,000 Acadian francophones each. And that at the turn of the 21st century, New Brunswick had 235,000 and Nova Scotia had less than 50,000.
I suspect the revanche des berceaux phenomenon probably played a part, but there are no doubt other factors as well... I sometimes wonder about this.
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I am pretty skeptical of that 2,600 in the 1764 census figure. Who would participate in a census only a few years after their communities were rounded up and deported?
We have a 3% undercount today in the census. Imagine what it was in 1764.
Another factor that is often missed is that Nova Scotia had a significant number of Protestant Francophones from places like Switzerland and Jersey. They were not considered to be the same group as the Acadians, and were not deported. Today they mostly have slightly weird Anglicized names. I am not sure when they switched over to using English.